Re: [Bug-wget] Send Content-Length with POST 0 length body

[Matthew Atkinson]

On 20/10/14 16:26, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> should we do this only for POST requests?  What about doing it in any
> case that "!(opt.body_data || opt.body_file)"?
> 
> Regards,
> Giuseppe

>From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.3.2
> A user agent SHOULD send a Content-Length in a request message when
> no Transfer-Encoding is sent and the request method defines a
> meaning for an enclosed payload body.  For example, a Content-Length
> header field is normally sent in a POST request even when the value
> is 0 (indicating an empty payload body).  A user agent SHOULD
> NOT send a Content-Length header field when the request message
> does not contain a payload body and the method semantics do not
> anticipate such a body.

I would think that we should do this for POST and PUT, but nothing
else

Thanks,
Matt